Biden camp: Russia hacking Burisma shows Putin views former vice president as a ‘threat’

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2020 Democratic front-runner Joe Biden is casting himself as the candidate Russian President Vladimir Putin fears the most.

Biden’s team seized on a New York Times report Monday, which said Russian hackers attempted to hack into Burisma, the Ukrainian natural gas firm that employed Biden’s son Hunter and is at the center of President Trump’s impeachment, to claim it is not just Trump who is intimidated by the former vice president.

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